Emily Blunt won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress on Sunday night, for her quiet role in A Quiet Place. The horror film, if you’ll remember, was directed by her husband, John Krasinski, who starred alongside her.
Onstage, she cracked some light marital humor about working professionally with Krasinski: “Thank you for giving me the part. You would have been in major trouble if you hadn’t.”
But backstage, Blunt assuaged any fears that her marriage was ever actually in danger. “My favorite thing about shooting A Quiet Place for sure was working with John,” Blunt told reporters in the press room. “You go into this process not knowing what it’s going to be like. A lot of people were like ‘You’re going to be divorced by the end of it,’ but we were so much closer. I think the discovery of how we collaborated and could create something together was just so special.”
This is what it’s like to married to Jim from The Office. Asked why he couldn’t stop standing up and applauding for her as she accepted her award, Blunt said “I’m going to have to ask him.”